Massage me Jacket

Step 2 The pattern and stencils

Start by tracing out the pattern for the jacket on to the neoprene. On the DIY part of the websiste www.massage-me.at you will find an Illustrator file of the pattern that you can scale to the original size (see reference measurements). To trace it you can either print and cut the pattern or project it onto the neoprene. The orange pieces on the pattern should be made from neoprene; the grey pieces on the pattern can be made out of another kind of material if you like.

It helps to cut stencils for the button layout for two reasons:
a) So that you can cut the individual button shapes out of conductive clothe.
b) So that when you have to iron the buttons onto the neoprene you know exactly where they go.